English 1213 Dr. Nye

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English 1213Dr. Nye

• Session 1
• Introduction to Information Literacy, Search
  Techniques Finding Books

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Part 1

• Information
• Literacy

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Information Literacy

• It is a set of abilities requiring individuals to
  recognize when information is needed and have the
  ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively
  the needed information.

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Library Instruction in the Information Age

• A single current newspaper contains more written
  and visual information than the average person in
  the 17th Century was likely to come across in
  their entire lifetime. There are many areas of
  literacy that all add up to Information Literacy
  Cultural, Visual, Media, Network, Computer,
  Traditional Alphabetic Literacy, and Library
  Instruction.

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DID YOU KNOW
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Educational Goals for 21st Century

• Teach students to be self-directed understand
  how to organize more more of their own
  learning.
• Teach students the importance of global
  communication.
• Teach students to deal with massive amounts of
  information.

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Part 2

• Search
• Techniques

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Keywords

• Flexible terms
• Easy searches
• Less accurate searches

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Identifying Keywords

• Identify the significant terms and concepts that
  describe your topic from your thesis statement or
  research question.
• These terms will become the key for searching
  catalogs, indexes, and databases for information
  about your subject.

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Other Keywords

• Identify the synonyms and antonyms to your
  keywords
• Use a thesaurus
• Use database tools like descriptors and subjects

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Keyword Phrases

• Single concept, multiple words
• Some electronic resources require keyword phrases
  be enclosed with punctuation
• Quotation marks
• Parenthesis

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Keyword Phrases

• Basic phrase
• Proper names
• Hyphenated words
• Slogans, advertisements
• Famous quotes
• Movie titles, song titles, etc.

• (criminal justice)
• Native American
• (x-ray)
• Im lovin it
• (to be or not to be)
• Lord of the Rings

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Treatment of employees by fast food restaurants

• First, narrow down the topic
• Which restaurants are you talking about?
• What kind of treatment?
• Good or Bad
• Focusing on
• Working environment hours
• Benefits Pay
• Promotion Opportunities
• How employees are treated by their peers?
  Manager(s)? Customer(s)?

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How AND is used

• AND (narrows)
• restaurant and employee
• restaurant and employee and retirement benefits

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Select three keywords
Restaurant
Employee
Salary
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How OR is used

• OR (expands)
• restaurant or cafeteria
• salary or income
• AND OR together
• restaurant or cafeteria and employee
• salary or income and work hours

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Select related terms
Worker
Cafeteria
Benefits
Restaurant
Employee
Salary
Waitress
Eatery
Income
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Search Strategy

• Endless possibilities
• employee OR worker AND cafeteria AND salary
• employee AND restaurant AND salary OR income
• waitress AND eatery AND income

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How NOT is used

• NOT (excludes)
• cafeteria not school
• income not influx
• AND, OR NOT together
• employee and restaurant or cafeteria not school

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Boolean Operators

• Connect keywords only
• Must be placed between keywords
• AND
• Narrows your search
• OR
• Expands your search with synonymous terms
• NOT
• Excludes words from your search
• If used too much, it can work against you!

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Truncation (Wildcards)

• Non-universal symbols used in searching
• Common symbols ?
• Used with a root word
• Used to replace a vowel or single character

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Truncation (Wildcards)

• Root Word- looks for multiple endings of a word,
  in this case it takes the place of OR
• jump?
• jump, jumps, jumping, jumper, jumpers
• rope and jumping or jumps or jump
• rope and jump?

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Truncation (Wildcards)

• Singular/Plural- replaces a vowel or single
  character in a word, in this case it takes the
  place of OR
• womn
• woman, women
• history and woman or women
• history and womn

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Class Activity

• Shuffle Up and Deal

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Part 3

• Finding
• Books

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Library Catalog

• Search for books, e-books, and videos
• Renew your borrowed items
• Accessible from off-campus with no restrictions
• Operates best with
• the presented search
• techniques

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Library Catalog Found Here
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Library Catalog
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Reference Materials

• Almanacs, dictionaries, handbooks, and
  encyclopedias are useful tools for finding quick
  facts, statistics, or a broad overview of your
  topic.
• If you don't know much about your topic already,
  these tools can be a good place to start.

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WorldCat
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Work in Progress
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End of Session 1

• Thank You
• for listening